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msnt rtjf expenditures omits. Chojprognant; '.fact
that congress authorized the use of ono arid a
half billion dollars In tho hands of various de
partments anJ bureaus, 'which' otherwise would
have been converted into thtt treasury, and which
Should bo added to tho Republican total of ex
penditures. '
, fflGtt COST OF LIVING
''Th htek cost o living and tho depreciation
of.bond values in this country are primarily due .
to waritaolf, to the necessary governmental; ex
penditures for tho destructive purposes of war,
to .private oxtravaganeo, to the world shortage
of capital, to tho inflation of foreign currencies
and cro.dits and In .large degree, to .conscience
less profiteering,
, "The Republican party is responsible for the
failuro, to restore peace, and peace conditions
in JSuropo, which is a principal cause of po3t
ttfmietice inflation tho World over. It has denied
the demand of tho president for necessary leg
islation to deal with secondary and local causes.
Tho sound policies pursued by .the treasury- and
, tho .fqdoral reserve system have limited in this
country, though they could not prevent, the iu
, fla.tjon .which was world-wide. Elected upon
; specific promises to curtail public expenditures
" and not to bring the country back to a status of
oftVctive economy, tho Republican party in con
gress, wasted time and energy for morq-than a
. ,yur in, vain and extravagant investigations,; cos.tr
Jug We taxpayers groat sums of money whilo
rpvoatthg nothing beyond tho incapacity of Re
publican politicians to cope with tho problems,
pomanding that the president, from his placo
att)ip peace . table, call tho congress into ex
traordinary session for imperative purposes of
readjusting tho congress whon convened spent
thirteen' months Jn partisan pursuits failing to
repeal a single war statute which harrassod busi
na'or to 'initiate a single constructive measure
;,v'61p "business. It busied itself making ;.a
V rJrlfeicloil 'record of pretended thrift having
' iot oiie partlclo Of substantial existence in fact.
' 1. raged d'gainst profiteers and'the' highest 6t
'living 'without enacting a single statU'to to make
tho former afraid or doing -a sirigroto,cV toho. .-"
Iitttor withtnllmitations. '- - . '
"Tho simple truth Is that the high cost of
-- progressive industry. It established tho de
partment -of labor at Washington and a Demo
cratic .-.president called to his official council board
the first practiacltf-workinginan who bvor held a
cabinet portfolio. Under thin administration
havo been established employment bureaus to
.-bring tho man and the job together; havo been
peaceably determined many fitter disputes be
tween capital and labor; wo repassed tho
, child' labor .act, tho workingman's compen
sation , act, -(.the extension of which we ad
vocated so as to include laborers engaged in
loading and unloading Bhips and in interstate
commerce)-; tho eight-hour law, the act for vo
cational training and a codo of other wholesomo
laws affocting tho liberties and bettering the con
ditions of tho laboring classes. In the depart
ment of labor tho Democratic admjnistration
established a woman's , bureau, whichTa Repub
lican congress destroyed by withholding appro
priations.. - -' '-'-', -
"Labor is not a ,commOdity; it is human.
Those who labor have rights i"and -the national
socurity and safety depOndr upon: a just recogni
tion ot. those rights and-tho conservation of tho
strength of tho workers andtheir famiiles in the
interest of sound-hearted and sound-headed
-men, Women and children. Laws regulating
.hours of'labpr and. conditions under which la
bor is performed, when passed inVccognition
. of tho conditions under which" life must bo lived
to attain the highest development .and happinoss,
are just assertions of tho national interest in tbe
Welfare of tho people. At the samo time, the na
tion depends upon tho products of labor; a ces
sation of production means loss and, if long con
tinued, disaster. The.; wholo people, therefore,
have a right to, insist thai j.ustico shall bo done
irlrmfn rm Mm anrlftif nf Hi nnrrotif. vooV '. tu- tUUBfc'.iruu. V.U ., UU-1U fcUil tUttfc .IUOBW WUUbU
awaiting a final decision of the highest court r tlM r5ilts th? ?Wn whJel1 J!ie lifo
h valMRv of Mia hnftnr1 of, Wn . rilAA " .. $ tho nttOH 4SP0ndfl. must i'eCOgniZO the TO-
wv ..tf..w w. -vf www wf F V X'V0
public business a budget-ystom could have been
provided. ' ... ''.?:.
8ENAPPJ3 RULES
"We favor such alteration of tho rules of pro
cedure of tho senate of the United States as -will
permit, the prompt transaction of tha nation's
legislative business.
AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS
"To tho great agricultural interests of the
country the Democratic party does not find it
necessary to make promises. It alteady is rich
Jn its record of things actually accomplished.
For nearly half a century of Republican rulo-not
a sentence was written Into the federal statutes
affording ono dollar of bank credits to the farm
ing interests of America. In, the first term of
. this Democratic administration . tho National
Bank act was so altorod as to authorize loans
of ffvo years maturity on improved farm lands.
Later was established a system of farm loan
banks, from which tho borrowing already ex
ceeds $300,000,000 and under which the inter
est rate to farmers has been so materially .re
duced as to djrive out of business tho farm loan
sharks who formally subsisted by extortion up
on tho great agricultural interests of the.coun-f
try.-:
"Thus it tyad a Democratic congress in tho ad
ministration of a Democratic president . which
enabled tho farmers of America for tho first
timo to obtain credit upon veasonablo tOTmsi.and,
insured their opportunity for the future develop
ment of the nation's agricultural resources. Tied
up in supromo court proceedings, in a suit Uy
hostile interests, the federal farm loanysystem,
originally opposed bythe Republican candidate
for tho, presidency, appealed in vain to. a Re
publican "congress for adoquato financial assist
ance to tide over tho interim between tho be-
ptompt and consistent support of sound. and.ef-
fective1 measures to sustain, amplify andip.erfect
the rural credits statutes and thus to check' and
reduce the growth, and course of farm tenancy,
ciprocal -.obligation between .the. Worker and tho
stato. Thoy . should participate in the ,f ormula
tion of sound laws and regulations, governing tho
t condition B tihdpr which Jaboric performed, reco?-
Nol only did the Democratic party put into ,.1?. n?.ol?e?. law..;. ttiulatett and
w.ottoct:a gr.eat.farm loan. system of land mortgage fWrVTTff'sySSR uy ,
living 5an.only bo remedied by increased pro
ivduotion, -strict SPYernmental economy tiud a re
ilohtlessi pursuit of those who take advantage"
" of:.'poat.War conditions and are. demanding and
receiving-outrageous, profits.
i "Wo pledge tho Democratic party to a policy
of strict economy in government - expenditures
and to the enactment and enforcement-of such
leislation as may bQ eojjired to bring profiteers
r'b'efofq thO'tar of Criminal justicq; ' ;
' t'two tbriffirm the traditional policy of the
''mocratio party in favor of a tariff 'for rev- "
nus only and xjonfirm the policy of basing'tarifij
revisions upon the' intelligent researclr of a -non'-.
'prtiwn dommiston rather than utfoii theii."der
maiidi Of'selflsi interests, temporarily tfeld'jfn
' ayi'ncet'i "- ...." , " '
,...,, BUDGET ' -..
"in thb intorest of economy and good admin
1 Istratlon, we favor tho creation of an effective
'"Budget- system that will function in accord with
!the principles of the constitution. The reform .
should-reach .both tho executive and legislative
aspects of tho question. Tho supervision and
- preparation of the budget should bo vested in
' the 'secretary of the treasury as the representa
tive of the president. -The budget as such,
should not bo increased by tho congress except
"by a two-thirds vote, each house,, however, be
ing free to exercise its constitutional privilege
pt making appropriations through independent
'bills. The appropriation bills should" bo con-
ldored by single committees of the house -and
senate. Tho audit system should be consolidated
.' and its powers expanded bo as to pass upon the
"Iriftdom of, as well as tho authority for, ex
penditures. . -- ..
' ; "-A:budget bill Wan passed in the closing days
of-the second session of the Sixty-sixth congress,
which, invalidated by plain constitutional defects
.aa$ defaOed by consideration of patronage, tho
.prfKlde'nt was .Obliged to veto. The house
amended the bill to. meet the executive, objectjon.
SvVocmdomn the Republican senate, forbad Joum-
inif. without paSiMngtJ)iamended mea.ur, toon
, bydpvoMng anr,vtwo.moro to .this nrgont
regulations affecting the otlier;reratlbns of life.
"Labor as well as capital is entitled to ade
quate compensation. Each lias the indefoasable
right- ox "organization, of collective' bargaining
and, of speaking through representatives of their
selection. Neither clasg, however, should at any
timo nor in any circunfstandos take action that
"will put in jeopardy the public welfare. Resort to
strikes and lockouts which endanger the health
Or lives of tho people is an unsatisfactory device
for determining disputes, and the Democratic
party pledges itself to contrive jf- possible, and
put into effective operation aT f alraiibT compre
hensive meth'o.d ofcomposing differences of this
nature ? ." r
"In private industrial disputes,, we are opposed
to compulsory arbitration as" a method plausible
in theory but a failure in -fact. With respect
io .government service, wo hold distinctly that
tho rights of the people ure paramount to the
right to strike. -However, we profess-scrupulous
regard fbr the-conditions of public employment
banks, but it passed tUo SmithrLover agri.cultui
extension act, carrying to-overy farmer in every
section of tho country, through the medium of
trained experts and by demonstration farms, the
practical knowledge acquired by the federal-agricultural
department in all things relating to
agriculture, horticulture and animal life; it es-
tablished the bureau of markets, the bureau of
farm management and passed the cotton futures
act, tho grain grades bill, tho :o-oporatiye farm
administration act and tho federal warehouse
net.
"The Democratic party has vastly improved tho
rural mail system and has built up the parcel
post system to such an extent as to render its
activities and its, practical service Indisponsible
to the farming community. It "was this wise, en
couragement and this effective concern of tho
Democratic party for the farmers of the United'"
States that enabled this great interest to render
such essential service in-feeding the armies of
. America and the allied nations of 'tho war and
succoring starving populations since armistice,
dav.
"Meanwhile the Republican leaders at Wash- a"a wedgo the Democratic party to. instant m-
ington havo failed utterly to propose one single quiry-into the-pay of governments employes and
measure to make rural life more tolerable. They equally speedy regulations designed -to bring
have sigmtfizeii their fifteen months of congres- salaries to a just and proper level,
sional power by urging schemes which, would WOMAN SUFFRAGE
strip the farms of labor by assailing thoprin- tl, '', i .m, MMAnii.
ciples of the farm loan system and seeking to T60"0?-,
impair its efficiency; by covertly, attempting to mentof the constitution of tho United States
destroy the great nitrogen plane at Muscl pntitt oaual suffrage to women r We ngrat-
Shoals upon which government has expended G U?Q lesures ; ol thirty-five .state which
$70,000,a00. to supply American" farmers with hlvo ttwa;-mld amendment and we
fertilizers at reasonable cost;, by rutSelsl? US th0 1?$? d m"
crippling nearly every branqh of agricultufenV ;of TenneP.see, North Ca rolina and 1 and
deavor, lUerally rippling. .tle Productive med- states a9 have not. yej rtftUi ed the federal
lums through Vhfck tho people must bofed? suffrage, amendment to unite n an effort to com
. lWofavor such legislation as will confirm to r pl?tB- Pjoeess of ratification -and secure tne
tho primary pvoducors of tho nation he right thirty-sixth ..state in time foi? al thO women o
ot collective bargaining and tho right of co- iho. United States to partic.ipaj:o: In f ho .tonolec
.operativo handling and marketing 0f the prod- tion' Wo comnien tho offoctivo advocaoy of the
' ucts oi; tho workshop, and -'tUe farm and such moasurp by President Wilson. '. t
r. legislation AS Will facilitate the oxpoftation of ... . . .. WOMEN IN INBtTRY
.:U"rcrehensIyoV-,studio;;;or SOTMff
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of. facts wHi MftSSu QTUV " , "d adequate appropriations for-.tho children s
".';' X4he Dem6?rntlo ni nowL1' ' ' ' ' urOau 'and the 'woman's bureau Jn the depart
firm irloKf llSt S tlW) ment oM'abo xCopertive, federal assistance
firm iripna o noncst,iabovand,tho prpmqrjofyr t0 tUe stated rtf IromottWtoljs- reauireafor the re-
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